Check out Grant Acedrex, our featured variant for April, 2024.

Enter Your Reply

The Comment You're Replying To
Larry Smith wrote on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 02:27 AM UTC:
The hurdle of developing a 3D Chess game is the minimum number of pieces
necessary to mate an opposing King.

Have you determined this condition?  Does your initial setup offer a
sufficient force?

Whereas two 2D Rooks can push a 2D King into a mate, it takes more than
four 3D Rooks to push a 3D King.  The addition of the triagonal slide to
the 3D Rook's normally orthogonal movement may improve this(BTW, this
piece is known as a Narwhal), but by what factor?

Even with the presence of a 3D Queen, how many other pieces would be
needed to force a mate?

I think you may find that your game will be quite draw-ish.  You may need
to adjust it to reduce this potential.  Might I be so bold as to ask if
you've consider the use of the Shogi capture-and-drop rules(and
maintaining the FIDE Pawn promotions).  This would definitely liven this
game and assure a player of sufficient pieces.

If you haven't done so, may I suggest that you join the following Yahoo!
Group:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/3-d-chess/

A lot of these topics have been covered in previous postings at this site.
 You may find the information very helpful.

Edit Form

Comment on the page Cross3D Chess

Conduct Guidelines
This is a Chess variants website, not a general forum.
Please limit your comments to Chess variants or the operation of this site.
Keep this website a safe space for Chess variant hobbyists of all stripes.
Because we want people to feel comfortable here no matter what their political or religious beliefs might be, we ask you to avoid discussing politics, religion, or other controversial subjects here. No matter how passionately you feel about any of these subjects, just take it someplace else.
Quick Markdown Guide

By default, new comments may be entered as Markdown, simple markup syntax designed to be readable and not look like markup. Comments stored as Markdown will be converted to HTML by Parsedown before displaying them. This follows the Github Flavored Markdown Spec with support for Markdown Extra. For a good overview of Markdown in general, check out the Markdown Guide. Here is a quick comparison of some commonly used Markdown with the rendered result:

Top level header: <H1>

Block quote

Second paragraph in block quote

First Paragraph of response. Italics, bold, and bold italics.

Second Paragraph after blank line. Here is some HTML code mixed in with the Markdown, and here is the same <U>HTML code</U> enclosed by backticks.

Secondary Header: <H2>

  • Unordered list item
  • Second unordered list item
  • New unordered list
    • Nested list item

Third Level header <H3>

  1. An ordered list item.
  2. A second ordered list item with the same number.
  3. A third ordered list item.
Here is some preformatted text.
  This line begins with some indentation.
    This begins with even more indentation.
And this line has no indentation.

Alt text for a graphic image

A definition list
A list of terms, each with one or more definitions following it.
An HTML construct using the tags <DL>, <DT> and <DD>.
A term
Its definition after a colon.
A second definition.
A third definition.
Another term following a blank line
The definition of that term.